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Utopia Reading Group
If you’re interested in utopia (or simply looking for a reason to read more fiction), join the Oxford Utopia Reading Group. We read one novel over the course of each term, discussing a few chapters every week. This Michaelmas we will read Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). We’ll meet Friday afternoons at 4 pm in Brasenose College to discuss a few chapters of The Dispossessed. Weekly discussions will be supplemented with short readings by Le Guin, her contemporaries, and their anarchist predecessors on topics drawn from the novel. These topics include anarcha-feminism, fiction, work, time, resistance, and revolution.
View the reading list here: tinyurl.com/utopiamt25
Send a blank email to utopia.reading.group-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk to subscribe to the Utopia Reading Group mailing list.
Email the convener, Sophie Cardin, at sophie.cardin@politics.ox.ac.uk
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser:
Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Timing: Fridays at 4pm
Web Address:
https://tinyurl.com/utopiamt25
Talks:
Friday 14 November 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 14 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser:
Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 21 November 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Six: The University
Date: 21 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser:
Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 28 November 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Seven: Unbuilding Walls
Date: 28 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser:
Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 5 December 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Eight: Resistance
Date: 5 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser:
Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Editor:
Sophie Cardin
